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Members of Resurrection Catholic Church hold what is probably Bedford County’s biggest yard sale every year.

Called Joyous Junque, the two-day sale is held on the first full weekend of June every year with 30 percent of the proceeds going to the church’s outreach programs and 70 percent going to local charities. This year, they passed out $48,000 to 25 charities, all but one of which are in either Franklin or Bedford County.
That’s a pretty big yard sale!

Sedalia Center’s annual Bluegrass at Sedalia had a line-up that included the oldest continuously performing Bluegrass band in America — the Virginia Mountaineers. It was started by Clinton King more than 60 years ago.

“Clinton started this band in 1947,” said Larry Hall, who now leads the band. Hall was 15 when he started with the band in 1959 and took over leadership after King’s death.
“He was my second cousin,” Hall said of King.

Bedford Lutheran Church will hold an open house on Sunday at its parish house of Burks Hill Road. Their parish house is an historic home that came into the congregation’s possession by accident.
Bedford Lutheran is a new Evangelical Lutheran Church of America congregation that currently worships at the Bower Center. This works out well, while the church financially positions itself to build its own sanctuary.

St. John’s Episcopal Church will observe Good Friday with the Stations of the Cross. This follows Jesus as He carries His cross to Calvary, His crucifixion and death. During this service, people physically follow Jesus moving to 14 stations in the sanctuary.

And, rare is the man who wants to earn one.
Still, those that have done so are in a special class: They’ve taken one for the team and have the scars to prove it.
Roy Scott is such a man.
A Forest resident (Boonsboro area), Scott earned a pair of Purple Hearts in Vietnam.

A science fiction film shot primarily in Bedford, got at good response from the 1,300 people who attended MystiCon, a sci-fi convention held in Roanoke over the weekend. A three-minute scene from the feature-length motion picture was named the MystiCon Fan Favorite Film.